Wretched Country second edition is now available in digital format at the Red Room store and Giant Slayer games. It will be later available at Big Geek Emporium. and in print format at Lulu. The 2nd edition has revised rules, expanded content and three new scenarios. Get wretched in the wild west!
A Fistful of Blood and Dust: Released. A weird western spaghetti by Olivar Tripas (Tears of Belphegor). You can purchase it at The Red Room Store or at Big Geek Emporium (it will be available at Lulu soon in print on demand).
The Indians are not yet completely pacified, the roads are still unsafe for pioneers and adventurers of all kinds, and the unexplored territories are full of gold…or bad encounters. In this realm of unknown and danger, a band of misfits – an alcoholic priest, an ancient cult witch, a bounty hunter, a former sheriff, and an Indian – unite to embark on a perilous journey that leads them from the Canadian border to the Rocky Mountains, from the ancestral Indian lands of the Crow people to the heart of frightening and unknown territories. By combining their strengths and knowledge, they attempt to thwart the designs of the one known as the Profaner, a supernatural entity awakened from a long sleep with only one desire: To plunge the Wild West into an era of unprecedented chaos and desolation.
A Fistful of Blood and Dust is a short campaign mixing horror and spaghetti western influences by Olivar Tripas (Tears of Belphegor) taking place in the American West at the end of the 19th century.
The Indians are not yet completely pacified, the roads are still unsafe for pioneers and adventurers of all kinds, and the unexplored territories are full of gold…and bad encounters. It is in this atmosphere of unknown and danger that a party of bastards composed of an alcoholic priest, a witch of an ancient cult, a bounty hunter, a former sheriff and an Indian find themselves confronted with increasingly strange phenomena on a road lined with corpses and mysteries that will lead them from the Canadian border to the Rocky Mountains, from the ancestral Indian lands of the Crow people to the heart of frightening and unknown territories. By combining their strengths and knowledge, will they succeed in thwarting the designs of the one known as Profaner? A supernatural entity rising from Inferno, awakened from a long sleep with only one desire: To plunge the Wild West into an era of unprecedented chaos and desolation, to bring true hell to the land.
Also remember that until the end of the month you can purchase any title from THe Red Store at 25% discount with the code “redroomwelcome”. This week, and because we are about to release a new western scenario (A Fistful of Blood and Dust by Olivar Tripas), there’s also a 50% discount on the purchase of Wretched Country and Coldheart Canyon with the code “wretchedwestern”
Stay Wretched!
Wretched Folklore by Matthew Thomas, released today on Drivethru and Big Geek Emporium (it will be available later at Lulu.com a well)
On its face, Wretched Folklore it is a bestiary of creatures inspired by both Native American and European folklore to use in your Wretched Country and Wretched Époque campaigns. As games written with the OSR in mind—or, more aptly, written with the OSR game design philosophy as a guide—the Red Room’s offerings can fit into just about any game system with very little tweaking. This supplement, Wretched Folklore, is no different. You will find monsters that are, hopefully, unique and not your standard critter found in a monster manual of the world’s most popular role-playing game. Perhaps one of these monsters will make a fitting substitute for a creature found in a module of your own.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/422667/Wretched-Folklore-A-Wretched-Bestiary-by-Lordmatteus
The RPGPundit reviewed Wretched Country and… he didn’t hate it. He actually liked it. I think this is a pretty good sign, he can be a bit harsh in his reviews. Well, go watch the video and, if you think it’s worth it, pick up Wretched Country.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/415689/Wretched-Western-BUNDLE?src=newest_since
The bundle includes Wretched Country
Wretched Country does for the western genre what Wretched Bastards did for fantasy: it’s an old-school game meant for playing anti-hero characters. The spaghetti western, already referenced as a source of inspiration for the OSR dark-fantasy Wretched Bastards, now takes centre stage. In this book you will find: • Wretched rules adapted for playing a western game. • The Devil’s Country, a western-themed horror scenario about an international film crew travelling to Spain to shoot a movie believed to be cursed. • Hellstone, a setting that can be used to run spaghetti, classic or weird west adventures. …
And Coldheart Canyon:
Coldheart Canyon is heavily inspired by John Carpenter’s “not western westerns”, especially Ghosts of Mars; any similarity is not a coincidence but an homage! The adventure is meant to be played as a one-shot, taking place over a single night, from dusk to dawn. The party arrives at a small forsaken town in the desert; they are beaten from the arduous voyage and in need some respite, but what they find is a ghost town. Dudleytown appears empty at first, it seems like everybody has just vanished. Slowly the horrifying truth starts to be revealed. In the canyon, nearby miners have awakened an ancient alien force, that ravenously spread across town. There will be no rest tonight!
And the free stuff, conveniently packed in just one bundle.
Coldheart Canyon – Released (DrivethruRPG and BGE)
Coldheart Canyon, by Silvia Clemente, is a Weird West old-school scenario, heavily inspired by John Carpenter’s “not western westerns”, especially Ghosts of Mars; any similarity is not a coincidence but a homage! The adventure is meant to be played as a one-shot, taking place over a single night, from dusk to dawn.
The party arrives at a small forsaken town in the desert; they are beaten from the arduous voyage and in need of some respite, but what they find is a ghost town. Dudleytown appears empty, at first, it seems like everybody has just vanished. Slowly the horrifying truth starts to be revealed. In the canyon, nearby miners have awakened an ancient alien force that ravenously spread across town. There will be no rest tonight!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/414847/Coldheart-Canyon
Coming soon from the Red Room, Coldheart Canyon, by Silvia Clemente, the first scenario for Wretched Country.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/397915/Wretched-Country?term=wretched+country
There’s a Wretched Country scenario in the works (the first one to be released), so let’s prepare for that by having a sale for the core book. Until tomorrow the pdf will be 50% off, and the softcover standard colour book will also be at a discount.
PDF: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=932b79169f
PoD: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9337174f81
And what’s Wretched Country all about?
Wretched Country does for the western genre what Wretched Bastards did for fantasy: it’s an old-school game meant for playing anti-hero characters. The spaghetti western, already referenced as a source of inspiration for the OSR dark-fantasy Wretched Bastards, now takes centre stage. In this book, you will find:
• Wretched rules adapted for playing a western game.
• The Devil’s Country, a western-themed horror scenario about an international film crew travelling to Spain to shoot a movie believed to be cursed.
• Hellstone, a setting that can be used to run spaghetti, classic or weird west adventures.
